Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience, or any suggestions.
We’ve had our first round of IVF and ICSI, mainly due to male factor/low sperm count, but also PCO. Has our day 5 update call yesterday and had bad news.
They collected 25 eggs last Thursday, 17 mature, 11 fertilised - so we were really hopeful. The plan was for a freeze all cycle due to OHSS risk, I understood why, but was really frustrated with it, but am glad now as we would have had a cancelled transfer anyway. Day 3 call was good, they froze one embryo that was grade 2, 8 cell. All the others were 6-8 cell embryos then, so some slightly slower, but some 8 cells.
But have progressed to blastocyst. They all seem to have got stuck at cell stage and not progressed. This means that whilst we have a day3 frozen embryo, they aren’t hopeful about chances of that being successful if transferred as it will likely get stuck at the same point.
Has anyone else had similar. They have said they will review the case and ring with an update about suggestions from here. It seems that it would be egg factors - quality etc, or sperm factor given this kicks in more from day 3 onwards. I don’t know what they do know to find out more about what caused it? Without changing something substantial it’s likely the same would happen again and don’t know what we can do/change given numbers collected and fertilised were good.
Felt so positive and hopeful that we would have something from that many fertilised eggs and feeling really despondent now.